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Thursday, May 31, 2012

President Obama's former doctor claims that the president lacks passion, feeling and humanity by Jarrett Stepman

In a revealing new book,The Amateur, (available at Amazon and on Kindle) author Edward Klein interviews President Barack Obama’s physician, Dr. David Scheiner, MD, who blasts the president’s health care plan and says that President Obama has an “academic detachment” that he could never break through. The doctor fears that if the health care plan is “the failure” he believes it will be, because of runaway costs and other problems, then any health reform will be set back for years to come.These are only a few of many reveals in Klein’s book, which makes the case that President Obama is not the political machine that people fear, but an amateur with a messianic complex who is completely out of his depth.

Stepman also covers other events during the writing of this book, which are very interesting. An encounter with the Clintons arguing about whether Hilary will run for the presidency at some time in the future, Bill’s summation of Obama as “The Amateur” which led to the title of the book. Chelsea weighs in on Obama’s win, and favored her father’s promoting the idea of Hilary running for President. He also interviews Doulas Baird, former Dean of the Harvard Law School, and his sucessor, Richard Epstein. The two have differing appraisals of Barak Obama. Epstein saw him as a charismatic figure who excited students, but lacked legal substance, and never wrote a scholarly paper.

In an exclusive preview of The Amateur by Human Events, Obama’s longtime physician reveals the lack of humanity in Obama’s character and with which he enacted the entirely politicized health insurance reform, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often called ObamaCare.

Scheiner said that he believes the president miscalculated politically and that the health reform is ultimately doomed to fail. Worse, Scheiner doubts the character of a man who holds the highest and most influential office in America: “I think there is too much of the University of Chicago in him. By which I mean he’s academic, lacks passion and feeling, and doesn’t have the sense of humanity that I expected.”The author, Klein, later in the book, compares Obama’s personality to early the 20th Century progressive president, Woodrow Wilson. By quoting the historian Forrest McDonald, who called Wilson’s perception of himself, “little short of Messianic,” Klein says that McDonald’s description of Wilson “fits Obama to a T.”The Amateur is set to be released Tuesday, May 15. It is published by Regnery Publishing, owned by Eagle Publishing, which also owns Human Events.In the chapter titled, “Hollow at the Core,” Obama’s former physician, who is a liberal, blasts the president for being uncaring, and perhaps worse, incompetent.“He has no cost control. There would be no effective cost control,” said Scheiner. “The [Congressional Budget Office] said it’s going to be incredibly expensive… and the thing that I’m incredibly worried about is, if it is a failure that I think it will be, then health reform will be set back a long, long time.”Scheiner said that the Obama administration neglected the advice of real physicians and instead decided to let political operatives craft Obama’s signature health care law. People like Obama’s former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s brother, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, were the kinds of medical people that the White House consulted.“Ezekiel is a medical oncologist, not a general physician,” said Scheiner.The point that Scheiner was trying to make is that President Obama lacks the ability to understand the critical role of the doctor to patient interaction just as he fails to connect to people personally.“My main objection to Barack Obama is that he is a great speaker and a lousy communicator. He isn’t getting his message across to people. He isn’t showing that he really cares. To this day he hasn’t communicated with members of Congress.”Scheiner and other interviewees in The Amateurbelieve that President Obama has been a failure as a president, that he has failed to live up to the hype and has left a trail of betrayals in his wake.

Although Obama and Scheiner did not have a close relationship, Scheiner was clearly upset by how he was cut off when Obama became president.“Obama invited his barber to his inauguration—his barber! But I wasn’t invited. Believe me, that hurt.”

Dr. Scheiner (an old fashioned GP) who makes house calls, sums up the current Secretary of HHS, Kathleen Sibelius as a ‘joke’.

Dr Scheiner is himself a liberal and favors socialized medicine, in the form of Canadian health care, so no one can accuse him of being against total health care reform. Given his leftist leanings one would expect him to be supportive of Obama’s vision for healthcare. However he is one of his most severe and unforgiving critics.

What a different world it would be if Hilary Clinton had been elected President.

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